Description
Duration: 6 months
The successful candidate will work with stakeholders to elicit their requirements, explore suitable solution options, make recommendations for the solutions to move forward with and then see those solutions through to full implementation. Throughout this entire process, the successful candidate will evidence exemplary stakeholder management to keep all parties informed of the status of product discovery and delivery efforts.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with the Group Product Manager and other senior stakeholders to define the overall strategy and direction for your product area.
- Identify internal customers to deliver first class tools and service to meet customer needs developing close relationships to understand user needs, existing pain points, and opportunities for improvements.
- Define your core platform metrics for your products; maintaining a strong focus on monitoring and measurement of your products; be accountable for the end-to-end success of your product.
- Size opportunities (with engineers), prioritise the roadmap, and set targets for your team that will stretch them and meet business goals.
- Ensure the team has well defined epics and stories to work against aligned to OKR’s. Write functional specifications that define the expected behavior of your products.
- Work collaboratively with a team of developers, designers, testers, analysts, researchers and others to create products that delight your users.
- Work with agile coaches and your team to drive continuous efficiency improvements.
- Communicate with multiple key stakeholders to keep them up to date and bought into your product development, managing change effectively to minimise disruption, manage dependencies and ensure adoption throughout the vertical.
- Work closely with the Engineering Manager and the team to identify and manage technical debt in a sustainable manner whilst delivering against the agreed OKRs.
- Keep on top of industry trends and standards, putting those into good use in your own products.
- Present future direction plans for your product; balancing simplifying complex areas with storytelling while managing change effectively.
ROLE QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
- Experience working as a Product Manager, Technical Business Analyst, Business Analyst or Systems Analyst within a technically complex team.
- Great presentation skills with ability elaborating on various technical solutions for non-technical stakeholders; this is key in this role.
- Proven track record delivering high resiliency & high availability technical products.
- Good technical understanding of web technologies including API design & development; data & cloud technologies.
- Proven experience working effectively across diverse stakeholders within business.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Analytical approach & naturally curious mindset.
- Great organisational skills & ability delivering results collaboratively within agile teams.